Strategic foresight is leadership

Foresight and reinvention strategy are the essential tools of future enterprise leaders.

Having foresight conjures up visions of an ability to create future reality and that’s not an unfair conclusion.

The speed of change when disruptive innovation surrounds you means venture leadership will become tests of strategic foresight and proactive reinvention ahead of market forces. To preserve a venture from real risks of being doomed to market irrelevance.

Fortitude is the attribute that gets every new venture going.

Fortitude is the backbone of achievement and at the heart of disappointment. For as long as it takes to build momentum or rebuild hope after a false start or harsh lessons. It’s about testing yourself for real.

Fear and its subconscious partner procrastination are our natural inhibitors. Fear of the unknown, fear of the truth, and fear of failure.

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and all round clever guy

"The future is already here it's just unevenly distributed."

Cyberpunk writer William Gibson said this in 1993. There's still no better description of the digital age

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw writer and playwright

"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet.
The future is still so much bigger than the past."

A certified Father of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee seems underwhelmed. The mind boggles

Evolution of F1 design

Sixty years in 60 seconds animated timeline as F1 car design raced into the future.

"Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides."

Frank Tyger cartoonist columnist and humourist and sage

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"Gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, reporting back from beyond the edge

"Passion is the love of turning being into action. It fuels the engine of creation ….Passion is the fire that drives us to express who we really are. Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are and Who You Truly Want To Be…Passion is a love of doing. Doing is being experienced. Yet what is created as part of doing? Expectation. To live your life without expectation - without the need for specific results - that is freedom."

Writer and passionate free thinker, Neal Donald Walsch

"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

Inventor Nicholas Tesla, his reputation as one of the great minds took a century to overcome the G.E. PR machine

Touching our chicken-heart

All street cred to Chicken Man showing us 'What is Love", Flinders Station, Melbourne.

"Whether you think you can do it, or think you can't do it, you will be right."

Henry Ford, perhaps the greatest industrialist in the 20th Century